MEDIA CONTACT: Matt Cardoza,
GaDOE Communications Office, (404) 651-7358, mcardoza@gadoe.org
December 18, 2014
– The Georgia Department of Education today announced
that 38 out of 235 schools have exited the Priority and Focus
Schools lists.
As part of
the waiver from No Child Left Behind, the GaDOE was required to identify
Priority Schools and Focus Schools, which were determined based on achievement
data from all core content areas, graduation rate data, and gap between the
highest performing and lowest performing subgroups based on achievement and
graduation rate data.
“This
announcement is great news and cause for celebration for these 38 schools,”
State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge said. “The educators in these
schools and districts have taken this hard work very seriously, and the
outcomes are benefiting thousands of students across the state.”
The following
schools were removed from the Priority and Focus Schools lists because they no
longer meet the definition of a Priority or Focus School and they met the
required achievement criteria:
a. Schools identified for
achievement have decreased the percent not proficient by 18%
b. Schools identified for graduation rate
have increased the graduation rate by 8% at the school level or at the subgroup
level
|
SYSTEM ID
|
SCHOOL ID
|
SYSTEM NAME
|
SCHOOL NAME
|
PRIORITY OR FOCUS SCHOOL
|
REASON
|
|
607
|
3052
|
Barrow County
|
Winder-Barrow High School
|
Focus
|
Grad Rate
|
|
611
|
2060
|
Bibb County
|
Hartley Elementary School
|
Priority
|
Achievement
|
|
618
|
0190
|
Butts County
|
Jackson High School
|
Focus
|
Grad Rate
|
|
622
|
0208
|
Carroll County
|
Mt. Zion Middle School
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
625
|
3056
|
Chatham County
|
Groves High School
|
Priority
|
SIG
|
|
631
|
0290
|
Clayton County
|
Mount Zion High School
|
Focus
|
Grad Rate
|
|
644
|
0103
|
DeKalb County
|
Martin Luther King, Jr. High
School
|
Focus
|
Grad Rate
|
|
644
|
2059
|
DeKalb County
|
Indian Creek Elementary School
|
Priority
|
Achievement
|
|
644
|
3064
|
DeKalb County
|
Pleasantdale Elementary School
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
647
|
0101
|
Dougherty County
|
Albany Middle School
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
648
|
0175
|
Douglas County
|
Lithia Springs Comprehensive
High School
|
Priority
|
SIG
|
|
648
|
2054
|
Douglas County
|
Turner Middle School
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
659
|
3050
|
Franklin County
|
Franklin County High School
|
Focus
|
Grad Rate
|
|
660
|
0273
|
Fulton County
|
S. L. Lewis Elementary School
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
660
|
0291
|
Fulton County
|
Creekside High School
|
Focus
|
Grad Rate
|
|
661
|
0196
|
Gilmer County
|
Gilmer High School
|
Focus
|
Grad Rate
|
|
667
|
0388
|
Gwinnett County
|
Gwinnett InterVention Education
(GIVE) Center East
|
Priority
|
Achievement
|
|
667
|
0107(1114)
|
Gwinnett County
|
Gwinnett InterVention Education
(GIVE) Center West
|
Priority
|
Achievement
|
|
673
|
0191
|
Hart County
|
Hart County Middle School
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
673
|
5050
|
Hart County
|
Hartwell Elementary School
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
676
|
1054
|
Houston County
|
Perry High School
|
Focus
|
Grad Rate
|
|
676
|
2052
|
Houston County
|
Northside High School
|
Focus
|
Grad Rate
|
|
676
|
2058
|
Houston County
|
Westside Elementary School
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
679
|
0100
|
Jasper County
|
Washington Park Elementary
School
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
687
|
0105
|
Laurens County
|
East Laurens Elementary School
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
689
|
0195
|
Liberty County
|
Snelson-Golden Middle School
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
706
|
1056
|
Muscogee County
|
Cusseta Road Elementary School
|
Priority
|
Achievement
|
|
706
|
1064
|
Muscogee County
|
Kendrick High School
|
Priority
|
SIG
|
|
707
|
0298
|
Newton County
|
West Newton Elementary School
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
715
|
0188
|
Polk County
|
Northside Elementary
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
721
|
0300
|
Richmond County
|
Lake Forest Hills Elementary
School
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
722
|
0192
|
Rockdale County
|
Salem High School
|
Focus
|
Grad Rate
|
|
728
|
0201
|
Stewart County
|
Stewart County High School
|
Priority
|
SIG
|
|
735
|
0105
|
Terrell County
|
Terrell High School
|
Priority
|
Achievement
|
|
747
|
1052(0112)
|
Walton County
|
(Blaine Street Elementary
School)Harmony Elementary School
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
761
|
0103
|
Atlanta Public Schools
|
Heritage Academy Elementary
|
Focus
|
Achievement
|
|
761
|
0408
|
Atlanta Public Schools
|
South Atlanta School of Computer
Animation and Design
|
Priority
|
Achievement
|
|
761
|
4560
|
Atlanta Public Schools
|
Grady High School
|
Focus
|
Grad Rate
|
PRIORITY
SCHOOLS
• A Tier I or
Tier II school under the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program that is
using
SIG funds (1003(g)) to implement a school intervention model;
• A Title I
participating high school with a graduation rate less than 60 percent over two
years;
or
• A Title I
school in the state based on the lowest achievement of “all students” group in
terms of
proficiency on the statewide assessments and has demonstrated a lack of
progress on
those assessments over three years in the “all students” group.
FOCUS
SCHOOLS
• A Title I
participating high school with a graduation rate less than 60 percent over two
years;
or
• A Title I
school that has the largest within-school gaps between the highest-achieving
subgroup or
subgroups and the lowest-achieving subgroup or subgroups or, at the high
school level,
has the largest within-school gaps in graduation rates (“within-school-gaps”
focus
school).
• May not be
identified as a Priority School.
